Knoydart Peninsula Cruise & Seafood Lunch
Knoydart Peninsula cruise is your chance to explore and engage with wild natural places. The peninsula is designated as one of the forty national scenic areas in Scotland
Cruise with special seafood Lunch
“Knoydart is special and simply wonderful when combined with an experience like the day we spent with Billy at Minch Adventures. Feeling safe at sea in capable and experienced hands allows you to relax and really enjoy the day. Watching gannets dive around the boat, fishing and hauling lobsters. Being landed at a remote beach and walking through view after view to be met at the other end with the most superb seafood meal. I really hope we will be able return for another adventure.”
Within minutes the din, the clamour, of Mallaig in bustling visitor season is lost to the wind and the waves. You’re a guest of nature now. The earthiness, or perhaps the saltiness, of the Highlands somehow remains, lingering with us on the water. It is your omnipotent and silent travel companion as the waters of Loch Nevis lap at the hull, and lull us onwards into a landscape both tantalisingly welcoming and ominously fearful. Such is life on the north west coast, the land of the most awe-inspiring extremes. Let us introduce you to the Knoydart Peninsula.
The boat tour provides a uniquely personal immersion in the famously wild peninsula, afloat between the inky black depths within Loch Nevis and Loch Hourn. Keep your eyes peeled for the subtle vein of a Second World War mica mine running across the face of a mountain, or let your imagination run riot to trace the routes likely walked by invading Vikings and revolutionary Jacobite’s during Scotland’s most turbulent chapters.
Today, miles of human less land, eerily atmospheric and intimidatingly vast is even better when appreciated from the water, where a myriad of wildlife will keep Scotland’s famously alluring melancholy at bay. The hardy and persevering smaller sea birds share the foreboding skies with sea eagles, while otters, dolphins, porpoises, seals and minke whales are frequently spotted on or in their liquid kingdom. When we do come ashore, the serene and picturesque village of Inverie delivers a welcome pint, or perhaps a peaty west coast dram, at the Old Forge, the remotest pub in Britain.
As one of our favourite tours, expect plenty of scene setting from local expert, Billy. Historical tales full of facts and fantasies cover centuries’ worth of ecological life in these parts. You’ll hear all about the UK’s oldest rocks and volcanoes, present here thanks to a 3 billion year old fault line. Ask to trace them on our seabed mapping system! You’ll soon appreciate that nature and humankind have walked a delicate tightrope here, and still enjoy that depth of relationship and dependence today. Fans of fishing couldn’t hope for a better location for a catch too, just ask and we can provide you with lines and gear. Or maybe the thrill of hauling aboard fresh lobster will be sufficient! Lunch on board can consist of creel caught langoustines, Arisaig mussels, Silver Sands hot smoked salmon, lobster, and hand-dived scallops (subject to availability).
Departure from Mallaig Yacht pontoons or Armadale Pier Skye.
Time Duration 6 to 7 Hours.
Price from £1150.00. Seafood Lunch £75.00PP
